This past weekend was the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, when we ask forgiveness for our transgressions and forgive others for theirs.

But this year, I was having an awfully hard time with Twitter.

So I decided to write this open letter to you, Jack Dorsey. I figure Twitter's CEO and co-founder would be a good place to start.

You've been making moves lately that just don't make sense, and it's becoming a problem.

I'm not talking about questions of how you'll turn a profit or convince more people to join today's 328 million tweeters. And I'm certainly not worried how you'll stay relevant because, thanks to President Donald Trump, Twitter has that written all over it every day and in headlines all around the world.

I'm talking about decisions that undermine your integrity and ignore what actually matters.

Let's be frank: You need to deal with harassment. The pervasive, nonstop, everyday, all-encompassing harassment some people have been subjected to on your platform. It's the hate campaigns, the racism, the intimidation, the deadly assault and the Russian interference in the US election. All of it.

Reality is coming down hard on social networking, and no one seems more publicly oblivious than you.

One senator, Democrat Mark Warner of Virginia, said the meeting was "deeply disappointing" and "showed [an] enormous lack of understanding from the Twitter team of how serious this issue is, the threat it poses to democratic institutions, and again begs many more questions than they offered."

Ouch.

Since you rarely say much about harassment, and the company declined to make you available for an interview, I'm going to go ahead and ask my seven questions here instead.

1. Do you even think harassment is a problem Twitter needs to solve? Twitter may have been home to political movements like the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street and #BlackLivesMatter, but it's also become a haven for divisive and evil hate campaigns.

But I think it's time for you, @jack, to definitively say that you believe #harassment stems from a problem with the way Twitter works and that it's something the company needs to solve.

And if you don't believe that? Well, then let us all know so we can lower our expectations.

2. When will you take your terms of service seriously? Those awful acts I mentioned above? They routinely violate Twitter's terms of service, which ban activity like direct and indirect violent threats, harassment and hateful conduct.

So why then don't we see massive efforts in which Twitter moderators shut down accounts when they violate your rules?

Or maybe shutting down all those accounts would cause a dip in Twitter's active user count, a data point closely followed by investors and Wall Street.

So, of course, I have to ask...

3. Are you bad at policing Twitter because it's good for business? I hope not.

4. What's the deal with Trump? I'm not criticizing the guy. I'm asking this because Twitter has clear guidelines that Trump has violated. And here's where it gets rich: You acknowledged as much last week.

But, you said, because of the "newsworthiness" of Trump's tweets, they'll remain.

Basically, you've created a two-tier system of "newsworthy" people who can say and do whatever they want, and the rest of us have to follow the rules.

6. Can I be a "newsworthy" person? I do work for the world's largest consumer tech site, and I've always wondered what it's like to be an abusive troll. Or do I need to become president of the United States?

7. In light of all this, why are you devoting time to something that seems trivial -- like testing 280-character tweets? I mean, really. It's silly. And tone deaf.

Aren't there more important things on your to-do list?

Or, as I suspect, do you just think harassment isn't a problem that Twitter needs to solve?